Safe Work Practices - CSP

SAND No. 2011-0785C
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company,
for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration
under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Relationship of safe work practices with
process safety
Describe job hazard analysis process
Describe lockout tagout requirements and
procedures
Describe confined space requirements and
procedures
Review line breaking hazards and steps
Describe requirements and permitting for hot
work
Hazards
•Material hazards
•Energy hazards
•Chemical interaction hazards
Controls
•Job hazard analysis
•Operating procedures (OPs)
•Safe Work Practices
•Lockout-Tagout
•Confined space
•Line breaking
•Hot work permit
Job Hazard Analysis focuses on job tasks as a
way to identify hazards before they occur. It
focuses on the relationship between the worker,
the task, the tools, and the work environment.
Not the same as process hazard analysis.
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Involve your employees!
List, rank, and set priorities for
hazardous jobs
Review your accident history/lessons
learned
Conduct a preliminary job review
Outline the steps or tasks
What Jobs Need a Hazard Analysis ?
• Jobs with the highest injury or illness rates
• Jobs with the potential to cause severe or disabling
injuries or illness
• Jobs in which one simple human error could lead to a
severe accident or injury;
• Jobs that are new to your operation or have undergone
changes in processes and procedures; and
• Jobs complex enough to require written instructions
The Job Hazard Analysis Asks
Several Questions
•What can go wrong?
•What are the consequences?
•How could it happen?
•What are other contributing factors?
•What is the likelihood of an incident?
Job Hazard Analysis
Date: ____________
Location of Task:
Task Description:
JHA Number: _________
Steps: 1 through 5
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Step 1 Description
Hazards
Preventive Measure(s)
Step 2 Description
Hazards
Preventive Measure(s)
Step 3 Description
Hazards
Preventive Measure(s)
Step 4 Description
Hazards
Preventive Measure(s)
Step 5 Description
Hazards
Preventive Measure(s)
Safe Job Procedures
Task Description: Worker reaches into metal box to the right of a
grinding wheel machine, grasps a 15-pound casting and carries
it to grinding wheel. Worker grinds 20 to 30 castings per hour.
◦ What are the hazards? Consider the equipment hazards, the
material hazards, and ergonomic stressors.
◦ What controls can mitigate the hazards?
Credit: US Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Safe Work Practices provide for
the control of hazards during
work activities
Safe Work Practices required
by the US Process Safety
Management Standard:
–Tagout
Confined space entry
Line breaking
Control over entry by
maintenance contractors
They are generally written
methods outlining how to
perform a task with
minimum risk to people,
equipment, materials,
environment, and processes.
Lockout
They are issued
•to specific persons
•for a specific time period
•for a specific job
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Electrical energy from
generated electrical power,
static sources, or electrical
storage devices (batteries
or capacitors)
Kinetic (mechanical) energy in the moving parts of
mechanical systems
Potential energy -stored in
pressure vessels, gas tanks,
hydraulic or pneumatic
systems, and springs
Thermal energy (high or low
temperature) resulting from
mechanical work, radiation,
chemical reactivity, or
electrical resistance
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) or lock and tag is a
safety procedure which is used in industry
and research settings to ensure that
dangerous machines are properly shut off
and not started up again prior to the
completion of maintenance or servicing
work.
OSHA
1910.147
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U.S. Department of Labor Statistics:
◦ Approximately 3 million workers are at risk of injury
if lockout-Tagout is not properly implemented.
◦ LOTO prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and
50,000 injuries each year.
◦ Workers injured on the job from exposure to
hazardous energy lose an average of 24 workdays for
recuperation.
◦ United Auto Workers (UAW) reported that 20% of their
fatalities between 1973 and 1995 were attributed to
inadequate hazardous energy control procedures.
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A worker attempted to prevent an elevator from moving
by jamming the doors open with a wooden plank while
the elevator was on the second floor and then turning off
the outside panel switch on the main floor. Worker was
killed when the elevator returned to the main floor.
Worker turned off the power to a packaging machine and
attempted to remove the jam. Residual hydraulic pressure
activated the holding device and the worker’s arm was
caught in the packaging machine.
A mechanic was repairing an electrically operated caustic
pump and had turned off the pump toggle switch. A coworker dragged a cable across the toggle switch and
caustic liquid was sprayed on the mechanic.
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Prepare for shutdown
Shutdown machine or piece of
equipment
Isolate or block all hazardous energy
sources for the equipment
Apply lockout or tagout devices
Release all stored energy
Verify energy isolation
Perform work
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Make the work area safe
Check the work area to ensure
individuals are clear of the hazard
area
Remove locks, tags, and devices
Notify affected workers
Re-energize
LOTO Practices-
•Only one key for each lock the worker controls
•Only the worker who installs lock can remove it
•Shift changes- New lock added before old one
removed
•Authorized employee for group lockout device
•LOTO program
•Energy control procedures
•Training
•Periodic inspections
•Alternatives (US regulation)
•Cord & plug
•Hot tap procedures
Dissipation or Control of Energy
•Blind or blank piping
•Lock and tag inline valves
•Remove stored energy-springs, hydraulics
Blue Band
Red Band
Replacement of Nitrogen Pressure Vessel Seals
A group of employees are assigned to replace
the head seals on twelve large nitrogen
pressure vessels (accumulator bottles) at a
manufacturing facility. Each pressure vessel
has an operating pressure of about 5,000
psig. Replacement of the seals on each vessel
requires that its head be opened, releasing
any vessel contents to the atmosphere. The
vessels lack individual gauges to indicate
internal pressure levels.
Credit: US Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Did the pressure within the nitrogen
vessels constitute hazardous energy?
Were the employees performing a servicing
and/or maintenance operation that was
subject to unexpected energization, start
up, or release of hazardous energy?
Would the group lockout or tagout
provisions apply to this operation?
Resources: LOTO
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/controlhazardousenergy/inde
x.html
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-110/pdfs/99110sum.pdf
Confined space is any space that has:
•Limited or restricted means of entry or
exit;
•Is large enough for a person to enter to
perform tasks and is not designed or
configured for continuous occupancy
All of these spaces constitute a confined space…
Credit: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
•Contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous
atmosphere
•Contains a material that has the potential for engulfing the
entrant
•Has an internal configuration that might cause an entrant to be
trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a
floor that slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross
section
•Contains any other recognized serious safety or health
hazards
• Work activities may introduce serious health & safety hazards
•Welding
•Spray paintings or coatings
60% of fatalities are of
would-be rescuers!
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2003-City engineer killed in
landfill manhole when
retrieving flow meter
2004-Mechanic dies from lack
of oxygen in transport tank
2005-A utility cleanup worker
for a brick manufacturer
suffocated in a storage silo
2006-Welder dies during
welding repair inside of cargo
tank compartment
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Essential Elements of a CS Permit:
◦ List potential hazards
◦ List hazard controls
 PPE, ventilation, barricades,
 line blanking. LOTO
◦ Communication equipment
◦ Emergency & retrieval equipment
◦ Pre-entry & continuous monitoring values
 Oxygen, flammability, toxicity concentrations
◦ Calibration/bump test information
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The only hazard posed by
the space is an actual or
potential atmospheric
hazard controlled by
mechanical ventilation.
◦ Example: Underground
communication vaults
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No actual or potential
atmospheric hazards, and
all hazards are eliminated
without entering the space.
◦ Energy isolation-LOTO
◦ Pipe or line isolation
◦ Shielding of entrapment ,
mechanical hazards
◦ Fall protection
Credit: Utah Safety Council
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Oxygen Deficiency
Oxygen Enrichment
Flammable Vapors
Flammable Gases
Combustible Dust
Toxic Vapors or Gases
Controlled Atmosphere Storage Room
Credit: US NIOSH
1. Oxygen is tested first
Combustible gas meters are oxygen-dependent and will not
provide reliable readings when used in oxygen-deficient
atmospheres.
2. Combustible gases and vapors are tested second
The threat of fire and explosion is a more immediate acute hazard
3. Toxic atmospheres are tested last
In most instances, the exposure limit for a toxic gas or
vapor is less likely to be exceeded than the flammability limit over a
short period of time.
Many modern direct-reading instruments
provide simultaneous readings of multiple
gases.
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American Conference of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists (ACGIH) short term exposure limit (STEL) to
styrene exceeded
◦ 186 parts per million (ppm) measured as STEL
◦ ACGIH STEL is 40 ppm
◦ Standard set to minimize the potential of irritation to the
eyes and respiratory tract
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Task involved positioning and securing of uncured
liner material in a sewer manhole.
Lining expanded and off gassed styrene
Manhole was under continuous ventilation
Oxygen and flammable limits in acceptable range
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No monitoring checklist
Using your senses to
detect atmospheric
hazards
No training in gas
detection monitoring
No factory instrument
calibration
No daily “bump” test
No pre-entry monitoring
No continuous monitoring
No attendant trained in
monitoring
Credit: OC Environmental Services
•Entrants evacuated-entry aborts.
(Call rescuers if needed).
•Permit is void.
•Reevaluate program to correct/prevent
prohibited condition.
•Occurrence of emergency (usually) is proof
of deficient program.
•No re-entry until program (and permit) is
amended.
(May require new program.)
Line breaking means the intentional
opening of a pipe, line, or duct that is or
has been carrying flammable, corrosive,
or toxic material, an inert gas, or any
fluid at a volume, pressure, or
temperature capable of causing injury.
US OSHA “Ammonia High Pressure Receiver Standard Operating Procedure”
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/ammonia_refrigeration/receiving/receiver
_sop.html
•Hot or cold fluids
•Toxic release and exposure
•Ammonia
•Hydrogen Sulfide
•Fire and explosion
•Hydrocarbons
•Pyrophoric materials
•Moisture sensitive
materials
•Pressure release
•Pipeline pigging
•Steam
Credit: Reagan Safety
Line Breaking Procedures &
Permitting
•Operating procedures
•Scope includes both employees and contractors
•Permit
•Identify the hazard
•SDS, process information
•Consider cleaning agents which may be reactive
•Establish required controls
•Barricades-warning signs, cones, flags
•Safety equipment-pipe supports, fall protection, fire
extinguisher, monitoring equipment
•Isolate or control system hazards
•Cool system
•Depressurize system
•Flush system
•LOTO energy sources
•Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
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Additional considerations:
 Replace broken, corroded
and stripped bolts first
 If transferring flammable
chemical residue, bond
the container to the pipe
 Control access to area to
authorized personnel
 Log all isolation valves
 Ensure personnel are
trained and training
documented
 Prepare emergency plan
Credit: Reagan Safety
Hot work is work involving electric or gas welding,
torch cutting, grinding, brazing, or similar flame or
spark-producing operations.
OSHA 1910.252
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Fire prevention and protection requirements
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Implemented prior to beginning the hot work
operations
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Date(s) authorized for hot work
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Identify the object on which hot work is to be
performed
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Permit shall be kept on file until completion of the hot
work operations.
Permit Authorizing Individual – Inspects hot work site
before starting
Hot Work Operators – Perform hot work operations
Fire Watch – is posted to monitor safe operations
Designated Area – Location approved for hot work
operations.
•All entrances and exits clear
•Correct poor housekeeping practices
•Use appropriate shielding of flammable
surfaces
•Keep work area free of unnecessary
combustible materials
•Do not use flammable degreasing agents
•Monitor the atmosphere-<10 % of Lower
Explosive Limit (LEL)
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All workers should know the location of the fire
fighting equipment in their area.
Fire extinguishers are checked monthly
Mark empty fire extinguisher with “empty” and
never return empty extinguisher to its fire station.
All fire extinguishers should be inspected on an
annual basis by a certified company.
All workers should receive training before using
fire extinguishing equipment.
If Fire Watch determines fire may grow beyond
control- emergency services must be contacted
•Hot zone- inside permit space
•Warm zone – outside occupied by
attendant personnel
•Cold or support zone – equipment and
supplies
•Barricades and barriers
•Shields and railings
Discussed:
 Relationship of safe work practices with
process safety standard
 Described job hazard analysis process
 Described lockout tagout requirements and
procedures
 Described confined space requirements and
procedures
 Reviewed line breaking hazards and steps
 Described requirements and permitting for
hot work